Legal Opinion
Raihan v. George Wash. Univ.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 28, 2018No. Case No. 1:18-cv-00994 (TNM)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TREVOR N. MCFADDEN, U.S.D.J.
Plaintiff Aniqa Raihan brings this suit against her alma mater, George Washington University, alleging that the University violated the law in the way its policies dealt with sexual harassment generally, and her own sexual assault particularly. The Supreme Court has interpreted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. §§ 1681 - 1688, to authorize damages against federally funded schools *105even for student-on-student harassment, but the bar is high. Schools are liable "only where the funding recipient acts with deliberate indifference to known acts of…
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